The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-29 00:00:00

Ityß. AL FRED MELLON'S CONCE RTS EVERY EVENING, at kight. ROY A L ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDENrrodus. Wile.. C. Patti, Mdlle. Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. Ca, Mr. Hughes, and Ali Ben Sou-alle. The " Faust " Selec— tion, by the Orchestra of One Hundred Performers and the Rand of the Coldstream Guards. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One ra, tiling ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, £1 ls. and Cd. The Box Office is open from 10 till 5. On Thursday next, the Second Mendelssehn Night. The Beethoven Night will be repeated on Thursday, Sep tember S. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. ',MIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy Vitafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Atter which, THE bTREET3 OF LONDON. Messrs. J. W. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Fo."re-ter. H. Mellon ; .Mrs. Henry Ma:ston, Miss Emma Bar.lett, and Miss F .nny Gwynne. NW TtIEATRE-RO YA L, aolo froorl.tor and Mana , er, Al 7. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A WOMAN OF BUSINESS. Messrs. J. L Toole, Billington, and Mr.. Stirling. After waicb, MASKS AND FACES. Messrs. 13. Webster, Bedford, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart; Mrs. btirling, Mks. Billington. and Miss H. Simms. To conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole , P. Bedford , R. Philli p a, and Miss Woolg4r. Commence at 7. ,CIOUNTR Y and SEASIDE DRESSES. J Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a %,.Iriety of WASHING DRO-inbS, sultatle for the country and seaside, and at the c•earmg - out puke of only lis. 6d. the dress. JAY' S, 247, 24D, and 251, Regent-street. he p ma t e rial has air ' rice of Silks in the raw B LACK SILKS. --T a lready rsen 15 per cent., and it will soon centage. Messrs. JAY, retch a far greater P er therefore, invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand. which they can now dispo.e of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b. more Costly as the price of silltfluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 21 7,219, and 2M, Regent-street. C OALS.—The ULU 0:21,1 Direct from thei: SHALL COMPANY'S LS. • own Collieries. ----- -- --- Marquis' 235. per ton. I Double.. 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ i Deep ....215. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole !:.gent THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," j_ Containing the Latest SPOUTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening . of G. K. GLif.NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN supplied, as soon as published every Evening by JIKNItY _BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m o-strnmovr.-Morning, 12h. 58m.—Afternoon. lh. 20m, %.4• 4S , iii.L.L64.,„ 49,41WW1 4441.11 LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1864, If there is any one man upon the European Conti nent who, himself not an Englishman, does, never theless, thoroughly understand our English Consti tution, that man is, beyond all manner of doubt, CIIARLES the Count de MONTALEMBERT. If there is, on the contrary, any one man, any where die. coverable upon the European Continent, who does not, the least bit in the world, understand our Con. stitution, its nature, its mechanism, its working— that man we should now quite as confidently assert is, equally beyond a doubt, in our mind, M. the Dake DE PERSIGNY. But yesterday, so to speak, we should hardly have sup posed that the ignorance of the latter (in our regard) was so complete and so absolute. M. DE PERSIGNY we knew, nay, for that matter, we had pleasure in remembering, had himself personally resided here amongst us, in England, in London, and that for several years, as the Emperor NAP oLEoN's ambas sador to the Court of Sc. James's. Upon his recall from that post, to the end that he might assume a ministerial office of the highest responsibility, in its way, amongst his own ccultrymen, it will be remembered how very gracious, nay, what was far more, how very propitious were his allusions to the liberties of speech and of writing enjoyed here, in this country, by the subjects of the British Crown. These allusions augured wells Augured the very best, for the emanci petion, if not immediately, at any rate very soon afterwards, of the Press—of France generally, of Paris in particular. How futile were such anticipations, hardly a journalist of any im portance in France bat knows full well—some among them, even, to their cost. M. DE PERSIONY so long as he remained Minister of the Interior ruled the French Press, not with a spray of olive, but rather with a rod of iron. His retirement from office left that Press still in its old thraldom—only —with the galling shackles draws a little tighter, thanks to his benign system of administration ! And, now, indiscreet though he has been often enough before, and that, upon certain occa sions, rather flagrantly it should be said—M. de PERSIGNY has within the last week surpassed even the most flagrant among all his former indiscretions by his astounding speech at St. Etienne! That speech in which he proposed as a toast the health of his Imperial master, "NAPOLEON lll."—(this absolutely being M. DE PERSIGNY'S way of putting it)—" the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., the Founder of Liberty in France I" What was it TALLEYRAND hinted, so wisely, to one of his diplomatic agents, some ingenious youth, we will suppose, who was probably burning to distinguish himself—O, that M. DE PERSIGNY could somehow have borne the familiar phrase opportunely in his remembrance before delivering hie speech the other day at St. Etienne—Pas de zele ! "NAPOLEON M. the Founder of Liberty in France!" M. de PRESS SIGNY, it is simply the wrong word that, in your over zeal, you have selected. The Founder or the re. storer of Order, if you will—Yes! The vigorous restorer of Order ! The magnificent embellisher of Paris! The daring revivifier of the Napoleonic Empire ! The rehabilitater of the imperial dynasty established by the later. and greater than, CHARLES MAGNE ! Nay, for that matter —we will even go so far as to believe it—the intending Founder (when he shall himself deem the right time to have arrived) the intending Founder, or rather (to be a trifle more accurate) the intending Restorer of Liberty to France ! All that, if you like, M. DE PERSIGNY, when speaking of the great man who now for more than a dozen years has ruled the destinies of France with so much power and splendour, but who has yet to fulfil his own fair promise of "crowning" the edific e he has himself built up anew, almost, we might say, from its very foundations ! While eulogising NAPOLEON 111. thus ex travagantly, as the Founder of Liberty in France, M. D E p ERSIGNY caolly essayed to jus tify his hyperbolical encomium by contrasting, or, rather, by placing bide by side in comparison with with each other, the Constitution of England end the Constitution of France ! Evidenc ing in this, while he did 8 0 , such astound. ing ignorance an to what it is thE.t really constitutes the former, t h at he actually went the length of saying in this mar a vellous s pe ec h of his at St. Eti enne, that— " There is there (in Engle nd, that is) a Whole poli tical class, scattered all over the surfac e of the country, which being a traditional heir to the Con. quest, possesses, since the days of William the Conqueror, all existing means of influence, which administers the counties, which renders justice, Which- collects taxes (!) secures public order; and, in a word, enjoys all the prerogatives which, ia France, belong to the administrative hierarchy." Sufficient, will it be, here, to direct attention, in passing, to the words above italicized—words that we should hardly have expected could ever by e,ny po3sibility have fallen from the lips of a sc,me• time French Ambassador to the Court 01 St. James's ! However all this may b e—the Aroniteur du Moir has ingeniously end'Avoured to " let down," as far as might be in any way possible after so preposterous an c,scapade the perpetrator of this Gargantuan or Brobdingnsgian panegyric. Quoth the official paper just mentioned, in touching upon this most delicate indiscre• tion "M. DE PERSIGNY explained the toast (to NAPOLEON 111. Founder of Liberty in France) in a speech, wherein he demonstrated, that the conditions of liberty were not the same in all countries—[we should think not, in. deed !]—that France could only be a loser by bor rowing from her neighbours institutions which are not adapted to her social state—[perfectly jest and admirably well put !]—that she required a kind of liberty—[ahem!] —suitable to her temperament, and that that sort of liberty she had received at the EMPEROR'S hands." "That sort of liberty!"— precisely. " Very good of its kind, but the sort's queer"—is a homely colloquialism that has here (thanks to the 211oniteur du Soir's way of putting the above extenuation of M. de PERSIGNY) a colloquialism, we say, that has here its dis tinct application ! No—surely, surely, never did mortal man have more reason to exclaim, " Save me from my friends," than the reigning Emperor NAPOLEON. A great man he unquestionably is. Whatever Mr. KINGSLAKE, et hoc genus ne, may think of CHARLES LOUIS NA POLEON BONAPARTE-210W the Emperor NAPOLEON lll.—a great man he has shown himself to be, a great man he indisputably is, but not the Founder of Liberty in France ! The Restorer of Order in France, if you will—the Preserver of Peace again and yet again among the nations of Europe—the magnanimous ally (at times under every imaginable provocation)—Yes, the magnanimous ally of Eng. land—himself, on the battle-field, the victorious leader of French armies—the Liberator of Lombardy in the old world, of Mexico in the new, the former from Austrian domination, the latter from a ruinous state of chronic anarchy—a powerful Sovereign, a profound Statesman, a skilled master in the art of war (instance his Italiaa campaign) a successful administrator, in a word, to repeat the simple phrase with which we commenced—a great man, but not—at any rate, not as yet M. DE PER SIGNY—not the Founder of Liberty in France ! NAPOLEON lll—great and gifted monarch though he is—has never, himself, to this day, been crowned ! And, for that matter, the same must, in truth, be said of ,the majestic edifice his powerful hand has built up anew there in France—that stately edifice of the Napoleonic Empire, which, according to the promise of NAPOLEON 111., is yet, in the fulness of time, to be crowned—with that most radiant diadem of all—Liberty ! It seems as if we are to have no respite from the conflicting opinions which are entertained relative to matters connected with the American war. As the prospects of peace are most indefinite, it is the more unsatisfactory that these vexed questions should be constantly arising. The chief disadvan tage under which all labour when these difficult topics are discussed is that the conduct of our Go vernment is inconsistent and uncertain to the last. If there are wrongs to be redressed who shall say they will be attended to with alacrity; if there are investigations to make they may be postponed in definitely, and so on to the end of the chapter. The set scandal committed by the Fe;lerais has been ,he capture of the " Georgia," and it seems quite an uncalled for act on their part. The whole cir. eumstances of the case seem to show that the most unwarrantable liberty has been taken with a vessel which was pursuing a harmless trade, and cer tainly at the time of her capture was not inter fering in any manner directly or indirectly with the United States Government. It will be much less irritating to peruse the details of this transac tion had we a hope or belief that justice would be rendered, and that the offending parties would be treated by onr Government with the determina tion whieh is needed. There is too much reason to fear on the contrary that there will be a long list of communications, questions, and answers which will little avail in the emergency, and the inquiry will leave the matter very much as it finds it. One decided act is worth a hundred speeches, and it is always found that the shortest muse to be adopted is the surest one i❑ the end. Mr BATES has been most unfairly treated, and it is putting the affair in its correct form to say that he has a right to demand satisfaction. It is the bounden duty of the Government to protect him, and the further this matter is investigated the plainer it will appear his case is a very hard one. The ship was registered as a British one on the 30th June, and it seems difficult therefore to deter. mine how all the impertinence of Federal effron tery, and the assurance of their friends over here, from Earl RUSSELL downwards, can make it out to be bona Me American property. When it had been clearly settled that Mr BATES was entitled to the ownership, negotiations were entered into with the representatives of the Portuguese Government. These were desirous of engaging a steamer to pro ceed tp the Portuguese settlements on the West Coast of Africa. It is perfect nonsense to say that this was in any way prejudicial to the American Government ; and if, as is stated, tho officers of the Niagara were in Liverpool some time, they must have had ample opportunities of finding out this important information for themselves. It is most extraordinary that the difference cannot be seen between a Confederate vessel and one that has been transferred to an English owner. There was not even the ex cuse to be alleged that she was about to run the blockade, for it had been arranged that her desti nation was in quite a different quarter, and her basinees had nothing whatever to do with the Americans. It is therefore not too much to expect that some practical attention will be paid to this affair, and that for once our Government will give themselves the trouble to institute inquiries with the intention of arriving at an impartial conclusion. It is time that some decision should be come to in these matters, for there will be great loss and an. nuance, besides the dignity of the country will be compromised if affairs are left to the uncontrolled jurisdiction of Yankee opinions. Their estimate of national rights and customs was pretty well evi denced by their capture of the Confederate agents on board of the Trent, and their whole conduct since has been in keeping with that initiatory act which inaugurated their proceedings in a very charac• terietic manner. Had our Mininters gone on in the way they began, and distinctly told the Government at Washington that if they interfered with the rights of our subjects and inflicted insults on this country, it would be a casus belli, then different things would have turned out. We should not then have beard so much of arro gant boasting and ridiculous assumption on our part, or seen so much annoyance and rigorous treat ment received on the other. Since the beginning THE SUN, LONDOIi of the American war - a change for the worse has come over the minds of our administrators, and there seems to be a total lack of all that sense of discernment and spirit of enterprise which should rule and actuate the minds of men in their high position. The Federals are about the most unfor• tunate people in the world to treat with such laxity, and hence there has been a never-ending scene of recrimination taking place. Infatuated as they are, Ministers cannot stop the complaints or silence the murmurs of those who feel how greatly they have been wronged, and altogether we witness a state of things quite incompatible with the dignity, and at variance with the rights of this great country. This last spoliation that has been effected is quite outrageous, and it is earnestly to be hoped that the affair of the Georgia will inau gurate a new era in the annals of this American controversy, or rather restore to us a glimpse of the days that are over, when no nation was too great, too powerful, or too highly favoured to interfere with our rights with impunity. The English flag was once a sure protection, but now it seems to be pointed out as a signal for insults and injuries to all beneath its shadow. Both on individual and national grounds it is of the highest consequence that this affair be speedily and satisfactorily settled. Mr BATES has a claim on his Government that they surely cannot in conscience, honour, and honesty refuse to disregard, and we cannot better conclude these remarks than by quoting a passage from the Liverpool Courier which most fully illustrates the affair. "Itis a novel thing for a British ship, with a bona fide British register on board, and ad mittedly engaged in legitimate commerce, to be forcibly taken possession of and sent into a prize court upon the shallow pretext that at some former period, and while under different ownership, she was engaged in hostilities against the Federal States." It will be well if Earl RUSSELL ponders over this plain statement of facts, and they are not to be slighted with impunity, for the honour and interests of the community are at stake if our Foreign Minister can stoop so low as to sanction this base infringement of the rights of a subject and this affront put upon the flag of our country. THE HEIR TO VICTOR EMMANUEL'S CROWN.— PRINCE UMBERTO, says a contemporary, is only 20, but looks older : ho is very like his father; his face is bronzed by exposure to wind and weather, and his whole ' appearance savours far more of the " warrior grim" than of the "carpet knight so trim." His features are irregular, but there is something frank, open, and manly in his coun tenance that is likely to make him popular among a military people. THE DEATH OF KING LOUIS PHILIPPE.—Friday being the anniversary of the death of King Louis Philippe (who died at Claremont August 26, 1850), the members and immediate friends of the family met at Woe , - bridge to visit the vault in which his remains lie, and to hold a solemn service in reverence of his memory. The chapel under which the vault is formed is situated in the private grounds of Miss Taylor, who, at her own expense, maintains the fabric and service, In this vault were first de posited the remains of the first pastor of the congregation attending the chapel, and likewise those of the founder— Mr James Taylor. Subsequently, on the death of the exiled King, it became the temporary receptacle of his body. for on the tomb we find the inscription "Donee Deo adjuvants in patriam avitos inter cineres transferantur." The cere mony was arranged to commence at a quarter to 11, and by that time there were among those who had joined the venerable Queen Amelia in this tribute of love and respect the Prince and Princess Joinville, the Duke de Penthievre, the Duke and Duchess de Montpeasier and their daughters Princesses Amelia and Christine, Infantes d'Espagne, with the Marchioness de Sella in attendance, the Duke and Duchess de Chartres, the Count and Countess de Paris, with Captain Morhain and the Marquis de Beauvoir in attend ance, together with other ladies and gentlemen attending on the different branches of the family. About eleven o'clock Queen Amelia led the way to the chapel, where a special Mass for the dead was performed, with a Gregorian re quiem, the officiating priest being Mr Cumberbach, of the Chapel, Weybridge, while the musical part of the service was conducted by Mr and Misses Butler, of London.— Surrey Coinet, THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,— , The Nottingham _Expras has good authority for saying that the statements which are now in circulation to the effect that his grace has experienced any relapse, or is in any way worse since his arrival at Clumber, are entirely without foundation. A letter was received from the duke this week by a gentleman in Nottingham, in which he expressed himself as being con siderably improved in health. OUTWARD AMERICAN MAILS.—On Saturday the Cunard royal mail steamer Scotia sailed from the Mersey for Now York with mails for the United States, also a large cargo and about 50 passengers. The Inman steamer City of Manchester will leave the Mersey on Wed nesday next, also for New York, with the United States mails. Letters, &c., will be received at the Liverpool Ge neral Post-office until 10 o'clock (forenoon, and via Cork till 8.30 p.m. THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE COAST OF AFRICA.— It is reported that the slave trade has been carried on very briskly for some time past by means of steamers of such a class that our cruisers have no chance of catching them. One steamer of about 900 tons had got away three times, each time well laden with negroee. The barraccons are full.- 3t. Helena Guardian. ENCOURAGEMENT OF HIGHLAND SPORTS.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has signified his intention of giving five pounds as a prize to the best dancer of Ghillie Callum, the sword dance, at the Braemar Highland games on Thursday next. The Countess of Fife is to give a like sum to the best strathspey and reel dancer, and Lieutenant-Colonel Farquharson, of Invercauld, is to present £5 to the bust runner of a half-mile race.—. Dundee Advertiser. THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNEEERS.— Colonel MiMurdo has announced his approaching retirement from the office of Inspector -General of Volun teers, which he has filled with such conspicuous success. He does do in consequence of the rule limiting the tenure of staff appointments to five years, and under this regulation each of the assistant inspectors will also relinquish his post at the completion of his term of service. However much we may regret to see Col. M'Murdo lay down an appointment in which it will be most difficult to replace him adequately' althouh ee may be sorry that the valuable services of some of his efficient assisstants will be lost to the public, we can not but respect the fidelity with which the War-office ob serves its own regulations, and declines to fellow the bad example of the Horse Guards, where they have been shame fully violated. How the authorities in Whitehall can talk of regulations, when the quartermaster-general has been nearly nine years, and one of the deputy adjutant-generals almost as long, in their places, in defiance of all regulation, is more than we can account for.—Ar my and Xavy Oazzaia. A BRAVE WOMAN.—Some few days ago, some very young children were playing in a boat in Teignmouth harbour. A little boy, between two or three years of age, overbalanced himself, and fell into a depth of five or six feet of water. The accident being observed by two women, they both instinctively rushed into the river to his rescue. One of them, however, finding herself getting beyond her depth, retired ; but the other woman, named Sally Shiggins, wife of one of the lifeboat's crew, pushed for ward, and swam a few feet to the child's rescue. She caught him some depth below the surface, and as he was sinking, and afterwards safely brought him ashore. The child was found to be nearly insensible, and must have perished in the absence of Mrs Shiggin's courageous conduct. Her husband has been for some years past one of the lifeboat's crew, and has often assisted in saving life from shipwreck. HER MAJESTY'S STUD.—The General Steam Navigation Company's steamship Princess Royal, which arrived at Granton from London on Friday morning, brought eleven horses and three carriages belonging to her Majesty. The horses and carriages will remain in Edin burgh till Monday morning, when they will be despatched per rail to Perth, to be employed in the procession at the inauguration of the Albert statue.—Scotsman. MISS JANE HILL, a sister of the late General Lord Hill, died recently at the ago of ninety-three. ICE IN AUGUST.-0a Thursday morning, the 25th inst., a piece of ice was taken from an iron sheep trough at Kidlington, near Oxford, which, after being carried half a measut ed 12 inches in length and was as thick as com mon window glasa. The next morning ice was taken from the bottom of a punt on the river ME, near Medley-lock, Oxford, as thick as a si x p ence . _ _• MR. JUSTICE WILLIAMS.--We are glad to state that the learned judge, who is still at Exeter, is very much improved in health. On Friday his Lordship was drawn out in a Bath chair for an hour. Two ONE-LEGGED ('OM lANDERS.—It is observed by those curious in coincidences that both the commanders in-chief of the confronting armies at Atlanta, Hood and Sherman, have left a leg on the battle-field. General Sherman has, however, physically an advantage over his opponent in the use of both arms, while General Hood has only a stump in the place of one of his. General Sherman lost his leg in the repulse from Port Hudson, General Hood in the victory of Chickamauga. -27;e M. DE LA3IARTINE'S NEW PLAY.—L'lllustra• Lion gives currency to a rumour that M. do Lamartino is engaged on a play detained for the Theatre Francais, , MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1864. L ATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the Africa, via Cape Clear, Aug. 28.) NEW YORK, AUG. 16. Admiral Farragut's official report of the opera tions at Mobile on the sth recounts that his fleet of 18 frigates and Monitors, lashed two and two together, moving in close order, ran up to Fort Morgan,and at short range poured in broadside after broadside of grape and canister, driving the artil lerymen from their guns, silencing the fort, and covering the passage of the fleet into the harbour, excepting the Monitor Tecumseh, which was blown up by a torpedo, and sunk with nearly all on board. The vessels then separated and attacked the Con federate fleet, consisting of the ram Tenneesee and the gunboats Selma, Morgan, and Gaines. The Selma was speedily captured, and the Morgan and Gaines driven into shoal water, but the Tennessee fought the whole Federal fleet for one hour and a half, and only surrendered when disabled in her rudder and a combined movement was made by the Federals to run her down. The Federal loss is stated at 250 ; that of the Con• federates at 300, principally prisoners captured on board the Selma and the Tennessee. Farragut's ships the Hartford and Oneida were disabled, and the Philippe burnt daring the action. General Canby,st New Orleans, officially reports that Fort Gaines surrendered to General Granger, commanding the land forces co.operating with Admiral Farragut, on the Bth, with 56 officers, 818 men, 26 guns, and ono year's provisions ; also that Fort Powell, mounting 18 guns, was abandoned by the Confederates and occupied by the Federals on the same day. The Bichmond Whig, of the 12th, declares that with the reduction of Forts Gaines, Powell, end even Morgan, but a very small portion of the work before the Federals at Mobile will be accomplished and that there will yet remain a succession of for midable earthworks upon either sides of the bay, and numberless obstructions and torpedoes in its bottom, for a distance of 30 miles to be overcome and removed before the city can he reached. Federal accounts announce that Sherman lost 500 men in his unsuccessful attempt on the sth to extend his right, and occupy the Macon road, pre viously reported. Through Confederate channels at New Orleans despatches of the 7th state that General Beauregard with 20,000 trope had arrived at Atlanta, but whether for the reinforcement of Hood or the defence of Mobile is unknown. Sheridan was at Cedar Creek, betweou Winchester and Strasbourg, on the 14th. It is asserted that 20,000 troops, reinforcements from Richmond, are marching to join Early, who will continue to retire until he draws Sheridan into a position sufficiently favourable to offer h:m battle. General Burnside has been replaced in the com mand of the 9th army corps, before Petersburg, by General Wilcox. Washington is filled with rumours of important movements by the armies of both Lee and Grant, which, it is declared, will shortly change the entire aspect of the campaign in Virginia. The Tallahassee continues her depredations, mov ing northwards. On the 12th, off Montauk Point, she captured the emigrant ship Adriatic, from Lon don for New Yolk, and on the 13th, off Nantucket, the bark Glenalcon, iron laden, from Glasgow for New York. The passengers on the Adriatic were sent to this city in the Lark Saliatte, which she subsequently captured and bonded. The effieers of the Tallahassee state that since leaving Wilmington, from which port they ran the blockade, they have taken 50 vessc:s, of which 16 were captured within 30 hours. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 256. Exchange, 277. Sixes, registered, 1881, 108 ; Five-Twenties Coupons, 1091 ; Erie, 113; Illinois Central, 1311 ; Atlantic and Great Western, Ohio First Mortgage Bonds, 5 pm. Cotton, 175 c. Breadstuff active, and firmer. Provisions active, and irregular. Sugar, good de mand. Coffee quiet. The Africa brings 31,270 dollars in specie. (Via Halifax and Cape Clear.) On Saturday night two corps of Grant's army were transferred to Deep Bottom, north of the James, and on Sunday morning they attacked the Confederates, who retired skirmishing to within six miles of Richmond, when they were reinforced and drove back the Federals, who claim to have captured eight cannon and 500 prisoners, Their loss was upwards of 1,000. Skirmishing continued throughout the 15th, 16th, and 17th, without decisive result. This movement, it is supposed, is to protect General Butler, who is engaged opening a new channel for the James. through Dutch Gap or across the Peninsula of Farries Island, to enable his gunboats to avoid the river obstructions below Drury's Bluff, which forti fication, it is asserted, will be shorty attacked by the combined water and land forces. Sheridan entered Strasbourg on the 15th, and learnt that Early had been reinforced and was ad. 'slicing. Sheridan then retreated to Winchester, Where he is intrenchiog himself. Sherman unsuccessfully renewed his attempts to Occupy the Macon-road on the 6th and 7th. The Federal losses upon each occasion were upwards of 500 men. The Confederate General Wheeler, operating in Sherman's rear, demanded the surrender of Dalton on the 14th, which, being refused, he attacked the town. The garrison held out until aid from Chat tanooga arrived on :he following day, when Wheeler retired. Nothing later from Mobile. The Tallahassee lestroyed 25 vessels off the coast of Maine on the 16th ; she arrived at Halifax this morning. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 267. Exchange, 278. Sixes, registered, 1881, 108: ; Five• Twenty Cou pons, 1091 ; Seven-Thirties, 1091; New York Cen tral, 1301 ; Erie, 1121; Illinois Central, 132 i ; Atlantic and Great Western Bonds, 4 to 6 prem. Cotton, 1780. Breadetuffs improved. Provisions irregular. Sugars steady. Coffee firmer. SUEZ, AUG. 27. The Messageries Imperiale steamer Erymanthe arrived here today, with mails, 95 passengers, and 1,322 packages of merchandise. INDIA. BOMBAY, AUG. 9. Sir Charles Trey°lyan recommends the introduc tion of the sovereign into India as a legal tender for ten rupees. The Persian Gulf telegraph cable is broken. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, August 29. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Shannon with the above mails has arrived here. She brings 133 passengers and 7,343,112 dollars in specie, of which 64,479 dollars are on account of Mexican dividends ; also, 355 packages of cargo. The Shannon left St. Thomas on the 15th inst., and experienced fine weather. Captain Abbot, commander of the Shannon died on the 18th instant, of congestion of the lungs, and was buried at Sea. The Royal Mail Company's intercolonial steamer Wye went ashore on West Point, Island of Nevis, on the 13th inst. Assistance had been sent from St. Thomas, and it was expected that she would come off without much damage. The mails and passengers of the Wye have arrived by the Shan non, having reached St. Thomas in a schooner chartered for their conveyance. Her Majesty's ship Shannon was at Matamoras, the Virago at Vera Cruz, the Styx at Barbadoes, and Aboukir, Petrel, and Royalist, at Jamaico. The Rinaldo had left Vera Cruz for Matamoras. The anniversary of the declaration of American independence was celebrated with much éclat at Santiago and Valparaiso. The entire correspondence between the Chilian Government and the Spanish Minister has been laid before a public meeting with approval. In the National Assembly discussions were taking place respecting the way to invest the one and a half million dollars granted to increase the navy. The Russian war steamer Gaidarnack arrived at Valparaiso on.the Bth ult. Valparaiso Exchange on London 60 days 44d. to 45d. Paris, 462 to 65. Nothing important had occurred between Peru and the Spanish fleet since the last mail, but dee. patches from Lima say that the Peruvian Govern ment was prepared for the worst, and are, with the cc-operation of their fleet,:ready to encounter and defeat Admiral Benzon and the Spanish frigates, and show Spain that the nationality of Peru is not to be tampered with. Commerce was going on as usual: Exchange 27d. per dollar. The West Islands were generally healthy. At Demerara the shipments of produce exceeded those of any previous season. It was expected the crop would be the largest ever manufactured. Freights dull; for sugar 21d. to London. Exchange on London, 476 dollars. The crops at Barbadoes continued to improve. Trade quiet. Exchange on London, 60 days, 4871 dollars. At Jamaica business transactions were limited. The butter market was heavily supplied. Ordi- nary coffee 60s. per hundred pounds. A large crop was expected. Rum sales, 24d. to 28d. in bond. Sugar fair, 255. to 265. ' per hundred pounds. Tobacco dull. Freights abundant. Exchange on London, per cent. premium. Intelligence from Hayti says that General Sanquefosse and the ringleaders in 'the late con. spiracy had been condemned and executed. Another attempt to overthrow the Government had been frustrated. The President, on opening the legislative session, spoke in high terms of the moral and material improvement in the country. During the past year the public revenue had increased to £600,000. The value of the exports was nearly 12,000,000. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 27.—The market has been rather more animated, and prices have slightly improved, Threes, for the Account, being now at 66fr. 35c., and Mobilier at 1,007 fr. 50c. Railway Shares in but little demand, with only a alight variation in quotations. The market continued firm to the close, and left off as follows :- 41 por Cents 94. 65 Do. eRd month — per Cents Do. end month 6G 35 Credit Mobiber 1011 25 Do, end m0nth....1010 Bank Shares 3380 Credit Fonder Roman — lltalian Loan 67 60 Do. end month 67 65 Ditto Threes — Now Mexican Russian - Austrian Spanish Threes 49 25 Home Debt .. — Deferred RAIL 'AYB. Cash. Account. Orleans imam. S9O .. 890 Northern .... Lyons and Mediterranean 915 .. 917 50 Southern. 636 25 .. 637 50/ Western Eastern •• 1 • Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain, Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona The Metropolitan Weekly Press. ' (.From the Guardian,) A return of stamps issued to newspapers for the 12 months succeeding the last published return—viz., from June, 1862, to June, 1863, has been issued. Of course it does not include the unstamped issue, and affords only a proximate estimate of circulation, but it may be interesting to compare the numbers given. We give the average stamped circulation of each paper during the last four years : 1860. 1961. 1862. 1803. Guardian .. . • .. 38.57 4098 4201 9217 Saturday Review • • 28.7 3,69 3596 3730 Record .. .- • . 2958 2996 214 2715 Evening Mail .. • • 2692 2468 2115 2211 Law Times .. .. 1875 1971 2115 2067 Athenmum • • .. 2.77 1846 1816 1846 Clerical Journal .. • . 2442 2306 1975 1558 Nonconformist .. • . 1587 1481 1375 1461 Tablet .. • • _ 1363 1414 1395 33 53 Lancet .. • • .. 1393 1 389 1420 1361 Observer .. .• .. 1753 3 500 1250 1131 I Examiner .. .. .. 1726 1474 1289 1082 Watchman • • 1106 1154 1231 1019 Weekly Register :. 1327 1342 1062 ICOO Medical Times .. .. 1675 1103 13 85 983 Patriot .. .. .. 937 1 174 918 923 Medical Circular .. 1630 Ulf& 1225 874 Economist •• • . 1048 Ri 907 827 . • Reader .. .. .. • • 769 Press .. .. 611 mo 1010 72t English Churchman .. 630 NO 659 663 .. Church Review . .. • • 616 John Bull • • .. 769 721 635 596 St, James's Chronicle .. 962 897 772 571 Spectator .. .. .. 863 596 510 518 Literary Churchman .. 596 787 558 511 United Service Gazette.. 760 587 538 508 Railway Times .. .. 405 479 433 452 Wesleyan Times ~ 894 677 423 452 Sunday Times „ „ 709 456 437 3.5 Critic .. .. .. 1165 1115 904 125 SALSION FISHING ON THE ESK.—On Monday afternoon last a very influential meeting was held at the Angel Hotel, Whitby, under the presidency of the Marquis of Normanby, to take into consideration the pro priety of adopting the provisions of the 24th and 25th Vic., 0. 109, for facilitating the passage of salmon to the upper waters of the River Esk, and also of procuring a supply of spawn for restoring the river with salmon. The noble marquis opened the proceedings of the meeting, which was of quite a conversational character, by referring to his own angling experiences in Nova Scotia and Canada. The meeting was quite unanimous in favour of securing the object in view, and in furtherance thereof it was decided to form an association of gentlemen resident in the neighbour hood for the purpose of preserving and increasing the breed of salmon. A supply of spawn will be introduced into the river, and ladders and passes will be placed in the most suitable places. The marquis announced that he should give a donation of £lO to start the movement, and other gentlemen in the room put down their names in the sub scription list. It is estimated that the cost of making these improvements will not exceed £5O. PEG WOFFINGTON.—A curious letter was sold on Thursday last—one written by Peg Woffiagton, the theatrical beauty of the last century, who, as her contem poraries asserted, could not write. There, however, the lettor was, at an auction-room, with the signature at foot, and extending to two full—not modern note-paper size, cer tainly, but—large folio pages. The epittle is directed "Fee. Master Thotaas Robinson, at Goodwood, in Sussex," and is full of amusing banter; Peg alluding to her famous "breeches" character of Sir Harry Wildair. The letter is cotoidered unique, and it realised a very large sum. Tho statement that Peg Wellington could not write was asserted of most of the gay actresses of the last and preceding cen turies. Of Nell Gwynne it was said that she could neither read nor write ; but an autograph note discovered a short time since L.iowed that she could express herself on paper, although a dismally-scrawled E.G., with full stops at every bend of the initials, was all that Mr Peter Cunningham could find to reproduce in fac simile in his little "Story of Nell Gwynne." Those persons who have read Charles Reade's novelette will remember what that author has told us of Peg's beauty, talent, generosity, and indiscretions. She is said to have been the first female who acted male characters ou the goglish stage,—Lonlen ,Review, Seizure of the Georgia. The seizure of the Georgia does not take us by surprise. During her stay on the Mersey the officers of the Niagara made no secret of the fact that they had instructions to seiza her. Her owner had a hint to that effect, but having perfect confidence in the bond fide purchase of the vessel, and her regis tration at the Custom-house, he disregarded the threat. Indeed, if all reports are correct, he in structed his captain not to avoid the Niagara, should the vessels meet at sea. The assertions which have been made, that the Georgia was intended for blockade..running, or a Confederate cruiser, have not an atom of truth in them. She was, purchased from the Confederate agent in Liverpool through Curry, Kellock, and Co., duly registered, altered into a passenger-steamer, a.:od was chartered to carry mails from Lisb - Jn to a Portuguese port. At the time of her se;zure she had on freight several hun dred tons of coal on Portuguese account, for the loss of which, it is said, compensation is now claimed by the shippers. Whatever legal questions may arise from the seizure, Mr Bates, at any rate, is perfectly clear from suspicion of aiding or abetting the Confederates, and we believe that on Friday he took the opportunity of the Chancel lor of the Exchequer being in Liverpool to lay the whole case before him. Numerous rumours have been current on 'Change since the seizure, which we give for the benefit of those who wish to hear all sides of the question. When the fact of the seizure first became known it was asserted that the original register of the Georgia, alias the Japan, had never been cancelled, and that the gentleman who purchased her from the builders only gave the Confederate commander a bill of sale ; that at the time she was committing depredations on Northern commerce she was the property of a British mer chant; that Earl Russell and Mr Adams, the Ame rican Minister, negatived a request by the owners for protection from seizure; that Earl Russell did promise protection ; and so on ad infinitum. Such are the current rumours, but we have every reason to discredit them.—LiverpoolAM;:on. The New Conf-,derate Cruiser. ` e ''..erate cruiser, known as the Talla hassee, coirjaranded by John Taylor Wood, has made her a - epearance off New York, laming and destroy ir.Ag no less than six vessels in as many hours. A communication from Fire Island, Aug. 12, says : " While one of the sailing boats attached to the Hotel was cruising outside this morning it dis covered a yawl boat making for the shore. Upon coming alongside of this boat 16 persons were found on board, who belonged to the pilot boat James Funk, of New York, the brig Estelle, the brig Sarah Boyce, the brig Richards, the bark Bay State, and the schooner Atlantic. All these yes eels bad been captured and burnt by the rebel steamer Tallahassee, commanded by John Taylor Wood, off the coast yesterday afternoon. The 16 men who were found in the yawl boat will start for New York this afternoon." A new Cour( The statement of the crew of the pilot hat is as follows :—" On Thursday morning, at half-past seven o'clock, Fire Island, bear. ing northwest, distant 30, miles, discovered a steamer steering west. Kept off for her and set onr colours. On approaching her we perceived that she flew the pennant and Union flag. On nearing us she stopped. Thinking she wanted a pilot, we hove our yawl out, and Mr. Smith and two men went alongside of her. As soon as as the yawl got alongside the steamer down came the stars and stripes and up went the rebel flag. The pilot and men who were in the yawl were taken on board as prisoners, and they lowered two boats of armed men, who came and took possession of the pilot boat in the name of the Confederate States. Before taking us he had captured the schooner Sarah A. Boyce, of great Egg Harbour, bound from Boston for Phi ladalphia. At 9 a.m. the privateer captured the brig Carrie Estelle, of Boston, bound to New York. She was burnt. At 11 a.m. she captured the bark Bay State, from Alexandria to Boston, and burnther also. At 1 p.m. captured brig A, Richards, of Bos ton, from Glace Bay, bound to New York. She was burnt also. At 3 p.m. captured schooner Atlantic of Addison, and burnt her. At halfepast three she boarded the schooner Caroll, from East Machias, bound to New York. She was released on signing bonds for 10,000 dole., she taking all the crews of the captured vessels to Sew York. All of the prisoners were paroled, and during all this time privateersmen would not give us anything to oat or drink. August 12, off Fire Island, 15 of the paroled men left the schooner Carroll in a rowboat, and steered for Fire Island Inlet, where we were kindly taken in tow by the yacht Lily, Capt. John. son, who brought us into the inlet." The following is the description of the Tallahassee published in the New York papers :—" The privateer Tallahassee is an iron steamer, painted white, with two smokestacks, two screws, about 230 feet in length, 20 feet beam, and draws about 9 feet of water. Her bell is marked Tallahassee, of London, 1864. P Engine marked 'J. and W. Dudgeon, London.' She is fore and aft schooner rigged, mounts three guns, one small one on the topgallant forecastle, a lung 32-pounder amidships, and a 24-pounder aft. She carries four waist boats. Her crew consists of about 120 persons, including the officers. Men of all nationalities are represented on board, most of whom are said to be soldiers from Lee's army. She is said to have run nut of Wilmington about Biz days ago without having been seen by any of Admiral Lee's blockaders. She has quite a quantity of cotton on board to protect her boilers, and there are four barrels of turpentine on deck to be used in firing vessels. She is commanded by John T. Wood, C.S.N, The surgeon, Sheppardson, says he Was one of the Chesapeake pirates. AMr Hall is the boarding officer. The crew are dressed in rags and tatters. Some of them wear their pistols tied to them with Manilla rope yarns. They are a hard looking set. The chief engineer says he is a Boston man, or that he was born and brought up in that city. The last seen of the privateer she was steer ing southseast, with the pitotboat James Funk in tow as a tender. All the officers and crews of the vessels captured by the privateer were paroled, and signed a document promising not to take up arms against the rebels until properly exchanged." TITE HAPPY FAMILY.—The Administration party is entirely falling to pieces. So utterly impossible is it for Mr Lincoln to be re-elected, the great Republican party, which is still strong through its immense wealth and its hold upon anti-slavery sympathies, is casting about for a new candidate in order that it may retain the government in its own hands. lam assured on the very highest autho rity that Mr Lincoln has consented to repudiate the Balti more nomination already conferred upon him if his party can agree upon some candidate who will do better at the polls. The last scheme is to put Andrew Johnson, who was nominated at Baltimore as a candidate for Vice Presi dent, in place of Mr Hamlin (the present incumbent), thrown overboard, at the head of the ticket, and leave Lin coln out. Johnson originally wag a tailor, and could not read or write until he was 20 years of age, when he fortu nately married a somewhat better educated person than himself, and was taught by his wife. He is still a rude, unlettered man, of violent passions ; but still he has a rough and ready way, and an energy of character which has made him popular with the Western people. It is felt that the crisis demands a man of nerve and decided executive force, and hence it is supposed that Johnson would inspire that personal enthusiasm which Lincoln has thus far entirely failed to create. The leading New York papers of Repub lican politics, the 2ribune and the .Evening Post, favour the substitution of Johnson for Lincoln; and at a meeting lately held in Boston by the New England senators a peti tion was signed and forwarded, in which Mr Lincoln was requested to abandon his chances for a longer lease of the Presidential office. LORD PAL3IERSTON'S VISIT TO HEREFORD SHIRE —The arrangements for the reception of the Premier on the occasion of his visit to Hereford next Saturday to attend the inauguration of the statue of the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis are as follows:--He will arrive in Herefordshire on Friday, and, as already stated in The Sun, will be the guest of the Rev Archer Clive, high steward of the city, at his residence at Whitefield. It is expected that he will attend the festival of the three choirs on Friday, the last day of the festival, when the " Messiah" will be given at the cathedral. On Saturday at noon, the Hereford corporation, militia staff and band, Odd Fellows, Foresters, rifle corps and band, and citizens will form in procession, and meeting Lord Palmerston on his arrival in the city conduct him to the shire hall, where the corpora- tion will present an address to his lordship, after which the ceremony of unveiling the statue will take place. There will be a publio luncheon afterwards, Lord Palmerston returns to London the same day. 017. ' l4v. , Vst ünrt e1rm1444 HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, August 27. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise drove out in a earr;sge and four yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Horatia Stopford. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse, their Royal HighnesEes Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Louis of Hesse, drove in the grounds of the Castle this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Beatrice and Princess Victoria of Hcsie took a carriage airing. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse took leave of her Majesty te - dsb and, with the infant Princess Victoria, left the " tie cn their return to the Continent. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by Bareness de Watley, Captain Von West e rweller, and Dr. Becker. Lieut. Col one l D u Pl at a l so a ttended the ir Royal Highnesses to G ravesen d, w h e re they em ; barked on board the Roy a l y ac ht Victoria Albert. The Queen held a Council to-day, which wee attended by Earl Granvill e , t he Duke of Somers et ' and Viscount Palmerston. Mr Helps, Clerk of the Council, attended. Viscount Torrington and Sir W. Haste were t he Lord and Groom in Waiting. Earl Granville, the Duke of Somerset, and Visco unt Palmerston had audiences of the Queen. On Friday last, being the anniversary of the birthday of the revered Prince Prince Consort, the Queen and all the Royal family repaired early Frogmore, SuNDA I ' Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to her Majealy the Queen, attended by 111 . de Colonel H. Ponsonby attended their Royal nigh' nesses from Dover to Windsor. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena, atte nded by the Hon. Horatia Stopford, met the Duke 513 :` Duchess at the station of the South. Western way, , and accompanied their royal highnesses to t he Castle. Earl Spencer arrived at the Castle yesterdaY. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duche ss of Montpensier and Princess Marie Amelia vi sitt the Queen to-day, and remained to luncheon. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Prin ues d e Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, their Royal Highnesses the Du ke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, att e nded Divine Service . the Private Chapel this morning. The 11°°' and Rev. C. L. Courtenay officiated. Earl Granville (Lord P res id en t of the Council), Viscount Palmerston, and the Duke left town on Saturday afternoon, at half past tw o o'clock, by special train from the Paddington station of the Great Western R a ilway, to atte nd the Queen's Council, at Windsor. After the Council the Ministers returned to London. of Somerset, Return of Prince and Princess Louise of Hesse to Germany. On Saturday afternoon their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with their in fant daughter, Princess Victoria, attended by Car tain Von Westerweller and suite, left Windsor Castle at a quarter to three o'clock, en route for Germany. Their Royal Highnesses, who have just closed rather long visit to the Queen, after having bidden farewell to her Majesty and the members of the Royal family, drove down to the Windsor station of the London and South-Western Railway, where they were received by Mr. Hill, the station superb intendent, and escorted to the state saloon carriage which had been provided by the South-Eastern Company. This was attached to the ordinary 2,45 up passenger train, and a few minutes' delay bat' iog taken place, their Royal Highnesses took their departure for Waterloo amid the salutations of the spectators on the platform. Mr. Hill accompanie d the train to Waterloo, where it arrived at tel l minutes past four o'clock. There their Royal Highnesses, who did not alight , were received by Mr. Scott, the traffic manager, and Mr. Williams, the Waterloo superintende;o t of the South-Western ; Mr. Eborall, the ge neral manager; and Mr. Knight, the traffic s u P e" intendent of the South-Eastern Railways. At Waterloo the saloon occupied by the BoYel party was transferred to the main li ne, and an engine belonging to the South-Eastern Com p any having been attached, a small special train was th'es formed, Mr Knight taking his station on the loco' motive, and Mr Eborall accompanying t h e train, which left Waterloo terminus at 4 17 p.m., and passing over the Waterloo-road j unction to the Charing-cross Railway, Proce eded, via Lon don - bridge, on to the North Kent l ine. Blackheath, Woolwich, and Dartford were rap idl y passed, the Gravesend station being re ached at 5 . 6 p.m. Duo preparations had been made here under tne super• intendence of Mr Woodcock, the station master, the platform being covered with carpet, w hil e the platform itself, station, and bridge over the railway were thronged with epeetators, who, on their Beyadi Highnesses driving from the station , accompanied the Royal carriages through the town of Graves end, by way of King-street and Harmer-streot, to the Custom House, the approaches to which Were kept clear by the borough police, under Mr Super intendent White. Their Royal Highnesses left their carriage at 01° entrance to this building, and passed at once to the Custom House stairs, where they were met by Al f Sams, the mayor, several members of the corpora' tion of Gravesend, with their mace bearer, and Com" maeder Cockraft, of the Coastguard, and conducted to the foot of the stairs, where the pinnace of the Victoria and Albert, in charge of Captain his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, was lying' This was immediately entered, and the crew dropping their ears into the river rowed rapidlY t u i ° the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert , which ha reached the port at half-nine in the morning. As soon as the illustrious party ha d em t, the Prussian ensign was run up at the mainly° the yacht bearing the Union jack on the stern 1114.,g; staff, with the blue Peter flying from the N'ail Ten minutes afterwards, at .5.35, the yacht's fe re v was hoisted to throw her head clear of the ipPed• and this having been effected the cable was e the The Victoria and Albert steamed slowly elu vir , river with a fine S.W. wind in charge of Larkins, the Dover pilot. The weather sou' and y j favourable at the time of the Royal dePart are ' an as the tide had not been flowing lo the yacht ng would have plenty of water on reaching the! Nore. At Flushing the illustrious travellers were to em' bark on board the Alberta, Staff Commander Welch. and The and proceeded to Dordtr eeht LT for Customs and Coastguard vessels and revenue cutters and other vessels at Gravesend were dressed ill of ladies and other spectators. colours, the embarkation being witnessed by crowds Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cob urg to the Queen. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Coburg and suite left the Waterloo term inus ef the London and South Western Railway on Satur° day evening, at 6 . 8 p.m., on th eir arrival from Dover by the South Eastern Railway, en route for Windsor Castle, on a visit to the Queen and Royal family. From Waterloo to Windsor the illustrious party travelled by a special train in charge of Mr. Hill, the Windsor superintendent of the 6outll Western Railway. Their Royal Highnesses reached the: Windsorot‘_ 8 station at 7.6 p.m,, and on alighting from 1. h e Eastern saloon were received by her Royal lifirgo,: ness Princess Helena, who had driven down ite the Castle to meet the duke and duchess' car d whole of the Royal party then entere d their riages and drove to the CfAstle, where th e dskerk 411. e duchess were welcomes by her 'Majesty, " . "? 1 ,„ Royal Highnesses wi' 4 l, it is ex pected, trav el 'wit" the Queen to Scotio; 4 4 ihia evening.